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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A display by the Wisconsin Conservation Department erected in a large tent extols the value of smoking fish for food. There are posters identifying differe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A portable exhibit in a box with a hinged lid has been set up on a stand covered with corrugated paper. A sign inside the box lid describes the benefits of... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys are standing on a boulder on the shore of a lake or stream in a wooded area. One boy is holding a thin stick which has a fishing line a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A biplane is dropping fingerling fish into a Wisconsin lake. There are two small sheds on the shoreline. The caption on the reverse of the print reads: "Fi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | In this photograph marked for cropping for publication, a group including a young woman, two young men and a boy observe the features of a rock outcropping... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young woman smiles as she enjoys the view from the Potawatomi Tower in Potawatomi State Park. There is a house on a small island in Sawyer Harbor, with ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing woolen snowsuits and hats are maneuvering a toboggan over deep snow in a wooded landscape. The sled is loaded with bales of hay and two bus... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men with shotguns, accompanied by two dogs, hunting in a grassy field. There is a row of trees and utility poles in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The picnic shelter at the east picnic area in Mill Bluff State Park is sitting at the base of a large rock outcropping. The shelter has low stone walls and... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man on skis and holding ski poles is smiling at the camera in front of the stone warming house at Rib Mountain State Park. Skis and poles are propped on ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A split rail fence in the foreground frames a view of Eagle Harbor and Ephraim from Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Sunshine brightens autumn oak and maple leaves along a narrow road identified as Razorback Trail. There are also birch and evergreen trees in the woods. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Snow and ice cover the upper portion of Copper Falls. There is also open water in the Bad River downstream from the falls. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lear Shewano is dwarfed by a grove of huge virgin white pine trees in the Menominee Indian Reservation. He is wearing a white hat and plaid shirt. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and girl are posing on the drive leading to a brick house behind mature pines. The house was built in the 1890's by General Walter Ca... |
| Date: | 11 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a field, with farmland, roads, houses, and groves of trees. |
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| Description: | View of several blossoming trees, along a worn path. Telephone lines are in the background. |
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| Description: | View across a field toward a kame, a cone-shaped hill formed by water pouring down through a hole in a melting glacier. |
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